Chilluminati Podcast - Episode 271 - The 2024 Halloween Spooktacular!

Episode Date: October 27, 2024

It's the last episode of October! So join round the digital campfire with Jesse, Alex and Mike and let's get extra spooky. Get Chilluminati Live Tickets Here! - https://lh-st.com/shows/12-20-2024-cox-n-crendor-chilluminati/ Special thanks to our sponsors this episode - MERCH - http://www.theyetee.com/collections/chilluminati HelloFresh - http://www.hellofresh.com/chillfree HeroForge - http://www.heroforge.com All you lovely people at Patreon! HTTP://PATREON.COM/CHILLUMINATIPOD Jesse Cox - http://www.youtube.com/jessecox Alex Faciane - http://www.youtube.com/user/superbeardbros Editor - DeanCutty http://www.twitter.com/deancutty Show art by - https://twitter.com/JetpackBraggin Sources - The Bell Witch: An American Haunting                 The Bell Witch in Myth and Memory: From Local Legend to International Folktale

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Chiluminati Podcast episode 271. As always I'm one of your hosts Mike Martin joined by the Ghostface and Jack Torrance of LA, Jesse and Alex. I am the Ghostface. I'm definitely Jack Torrance. I live his life. I am Jack Torrance. You kind of do a little bit.

It's not necessarily a lie. Yeah, I kind of am him It's our spooky final episode of October our Halloween episode This boy has the shining this boy has the show Just what any time much I I just want anytime I want to make a point of order that we should go to like a Walmart or like a JCPenney or something walk around and we see a kid acting up walk up to the fair and just be like this kid has the show listen this boy has the shining you don't understand I'm gonna call to him in the middle of the night and I'm gonna come save him when

he's in a mansion right now you get it. Just walk away like this boy has the shiny No, this boy has the shining The next 24 hours minimum that mom is gonna be thinking about what that fucking means and if she needs to be worried There is a generational gap there. There could be a moment where That mother's too young to know what the shining is Yeah, that's the problem is it's like a 50 50 on they're going to call the cops or you're going to just rent the shiny. It was the day was Dr. Sleep, right? Like Dr. Sleep is somewhat recent with you and McGregor. Like that was the thing. People didn't see that because

they wanted to see Dr. Sleep. They saw that because they were like the continuation of the shining. Obi-Wan Kenobi. What? Yeah, that's, that's, that's probably very true. Before we get into anything exciting for today, boys, we should put it up top. Our Chicago live show on December 20th is almost already sold out of tickets. If it's not already sold out. Yeah. Yeah, like it's got that low ticket warning we got,

what, yesterday or the day before. So if you haven't gotten your tickets and you want to go, you gotta snatch those fuckers up now. By the way, just a heads up, a whole other podcast is being told the exact same thing. So you got potentially the same, but also competing audiences. So that was going to be sold out quick. There's some Venn diagram overlap. Some absolutely sure.

Some, I'm sure some of those people will know who I and Mathis are. I don't even think that's going to be a doubt. However, just be aware that it isn't just our it's two full audiences. One ticket, two shows. And in honor of the day since this is the 20th of December. And not only do I have a pink, ugly sweater with a cat with his tongue sticking out on it, but I also yesterday bought a pink Santa hat.

So I'm ready we're also gonna do not Alex's big smile but Mike's giant red sack so make sure you might giant red sack that I can inspect sorry what for gifts what for me Mike's giant red sack you know it's fine to refund your ticket now it's all right you don't have to come it's okay if that killed it's a separate, it's fine to refund your ticket now. It's all right. You don't have to come. It's okay if that killed it for you. I'll set up a separate event. If that killed it for you, it's fine. We get it. The Red Sack Only event? Red Sack Only. Mike's Red Sack down at the bar under a bridge in Chicago, Illinois. Listen, patreon.com now because this show's about to be canceled. It feels like 1 15 a.m. to whenever to whenever it ends. Listen, I will say that this is how you know the tickets are selling well. The company that is that

owns the venue and stuff like, do you want to do a second show later at night? And I was like, we're already doing two shows and they're like, you mean like a second duo shows? Like, yeah, they're like, oh yeah, you are. And I was like, yeah, we'd be there to like three a.m. like you guys close and do it. Oh, sorry. Let's do it. Do you want to do like a 4 a.m. show? Yeah. They, that's how they're faster selling out is they were like, you guys should do a whole other show. And I was like, what? That would have been, yeah, I would have loved to shirtless second show. Just shirts. Sure. Okay. That's a good idea. But what if instead of shirtless,

we went, uh, Winnie the Pooh style? Like no pants, but like nice shirts. Nothing else. I'll wear the top half of the suit I got married in and no pants. All three of us can't do that. One of us has to not be arrested because only one of us can be able to pay the bail. So one of us can't do it because we all can't be arrested. Oh, I got nothing going on. No, I want to go. Yeah, I'd go straight to jail proudly.

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21 pages of stories. I don't think we'll get through 21 pages of them, but we've got plenty of them to go. Yeah. Yeah. It's a big chunky one so uh I can say Jesse I think you should take the very first story bring us in you had the most convincing witch laughed so you go first I know you meant that as like but part of me also knows that in general people just think I laughed like a witch which is what I say you sounded like that was incredible the other day? Oh my god, uh, the the the bad guy, not bad guy, but like the bully on Doug. Yeah. Roger Klotz. Roger. Yeah. They said I laughed just like Roger

and I thought that was really funny. Oh, it's very accurate. All right. My short ghost story by HK 47 to two zero five. I assume a birthdate. I'm going to assume HK 47 plus born the 22nd of May. I think that's just his whole, I think that's just his whole designation as a droid, right? His OG, like his own character, maybe his own like fan character. Oh yeah, maybe. Yeah. I have no idea. 2205. Yeah, he's an HK droid. That's the end of Saviors coming back.

I have no idea. 2205. Yeah, it's HKDroid. That's the year the savior's coming back. 2205, you know what? It's just far enough away that it doesn't bother me at all. That's the real year the dogs are finally coming. Pro tip out there, like don't, don't form a cult, but if you're gonna form a cult, the doomsday should be after you die.

Like, oh yeah, way after your don't be done like all the other ones where they have to keep pushing back. Yeah. Why do you gotta do that? Yeah. Why you gotta do that to yourself? Finland, March 2009. I was 19 back then, and the security guard on a night shift and me and my partner's job

was to do our rounds on our client's facilities, warehouses, shops, and other buildings, and respond to any alarms that went off during our 12-hour night shift. The shifts were all normal, and without events outside, this one small event that even thought, or though, I'm not sure yet, probably had a reasonable explanation gave me the creeps, and that I remember to this day We got a couple IR motion detection detector alarms from a local Lutheran churches cellar crypt Whoa, that's fantastic a place. They store the dead overnight before the funeral ceremony Add purple satin silk curtains couple of benches and tables a churchy vibe... place instead of a crypt you would normally think. Anyway, we went to check the alarm and obviously found nothing out of the ordinary, no windows

broken since it was underground, all doors were locked and undisturbed, but I did get a chilly feeling while checking the place out, especially near the shut coffin that was on the preparation room. I don't know if it had a dead person inside or not. Anyway, without further incident and logging the alarm as false, me and my partner locked up the crypt and left to continue our rounds. I don't know if my partner had any creepy feelings from the place. And since I was young and experienced, I didn't ask in case I would be ridiculed.

That's the only thing even close to supernatural that has happened to me. And I grew up in 170 year old farmhouse. This actually, this story is so perfectly exactly what I imagine a real like, yeah, this could very well be evidence of the paranormal as it would actually manifest maybe, but the story is so unremarkably undetailed and like straightforward that there's no reason somebody would ever make this up. Like, you know, this happened exactly like this, right? I literally walked into a crypt, which already is creepy.

Got a bad vibe. And felt weird and was like, I got to chill something strange. I don't know if anyone's in the coffin, but it was, you know, an alarm went off, went to go check on it. There was nothing there. Like that has all the signs of a creepy vibe, but I, but it also seems like it could be any number of things, but you're creeped out because of the circumstances. Right? Like content wise, it's whatever.

Contextually it is like, Oh yeah, no, I could get why you'd be terrified of being there because something went off in the crypt or no one's at, and then you got there and you felt weird. It makes perfect sense to me. I've definitely had moments like that. I understand exactly why that's normal. Yeah. Yeah. Like something was normal, something like I heard something and then even at night sometimes I'll be laying in bed and you hit that weird moment where you think you hear something. I will literally to no one be like, hello? Where you're like falling asleep. You hear somebody shout your name.

Absolutely. It sounds just like your name and you're like, oh, but no, it's your brain. Yeah. Nothing happens. Like even just simple things. Like, you know, like you're like, think about your high school, right? That you like went to when you were a kid, like had you ever, you ever been there at night? I really enjoyed the inside of the locker. You ever walked across campus? Yeah. Yeah. Sucked going to the band room at night was scary. It's so crazy how spooky something completely unremarkable can get just because it's spooky.

It's so and then at the same time last time I was in New York, my my I had to leave at 4am. So I'm standing outside my hotel at 4am bag in hand down the street. There's like dudes hanging out across the streets, pitch black, not a light on. And I'm thinking to myself, why don't I feel weird? You know, like that, like, like it's late, there's no one around. It's super scary. But you see like figures down the end of the street. I felt nothing for some reason. I felt completely comfortable. City that never sleeps. Just like waiting for this thing. Yeah. But I know that if you would have take that scene, put me in the middle

of a forest and be like, wait for your Uber in the forest. I'd be like, I'm dying out here, dude. That's just saying I'm dead. No way. Yeah. Yeah. It's fucking scary. Like the location can matter. Yeah. Like one noise that's like, ah, and it's clearly a deer or something, but it sounds like the demon coming to take your soul. You're like, start sprinting into the woods wildly. You know, I've been walking through spider spider webs that alone gets me fucked up like Like the human like the ghosts are like almost like they don't need to be real to be scared. I don't know It's fucked up. Thank you so much to today's sponsor. Hello fresh. I've been with hello fresh for years now You know what I'm gonna say and I'm to continue to tell you how much I freaking love HelloFresh.

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about something just completely mundane. And I was like talking to her and she was standing in front of those. And I don't know what happened, but one of them just shot up like maybe like an inch up the spine of the book straight up. And I was like, Whoa, and she tried to put it down. And it actually took like effort to pull it back down. And

I don't know what happened there. That was really weird. And there's been some, there's been some more just like straight up like walking around, but nothing like definitive, but just some very, very creepy vibes lately. Like just like footsteps. Like stuff that sounds like, did my neighbors just move something in their cupboard that's like echoing out of my cupboard or like what is that but it's like in the middle of the day or sometimes like at a very very late time both times when I feel like nobody is around you tried addressing it like Being like hello

Yeah, I mean like get out. Yeah, you're not welcome here leave. I've definitely like tried to talk to I've never said You're not welcome here leave, but I but I have But I have been like hello. It's somebody in the kitchen You know can you make another sound that kind of thing wonder if it's I wonder if it's a thing in your apartment Followed you to the hotel that night Just got on the plane with me jiggled your door handle and like that one I had like a little like like a dog with me in my hotel room But it was like spectral and it wanted to leave yeah, well spectral pup following you around that was very scary that was really scary oh god

anyway we gotta move on all right Alex you take the next one my encounter with an eldritch mask by Thane Visor I've recently been getting into chluminahti binging the podcast as I work and I just wish I started listening sooner after hearing a lot of stories from other listeners and tales of the supernatural I decided to make a reddit account to share an encounter I had many years ago that's been on my mind, probably because I've been listening to a podcast about aliens, conspiracies, and supernatural stuff. Memories of it come back every now and then, especially when spooky season approaches.

The guys are free to tell this story if they wish, but I'm also more than content to see what the community makes of it as well. This encounter takes place one evening in my childhood home I was visiting for the weekend, coming from college. All of it takes place within my bedroom after I went to sleep. This encounter has two parts, a strange dream and then the encounter itself. I debated for a while if the dream was worth mentioning, but considering how vivid and odd it was and that it preceded the encounter, I figure why not. The Dream

The first thing I remember is looking through the slightly open door of my bedroom to the hallway outside and seeing a figure in a white t-shirt walk past the opening further down the hallway, a ray from my room. I remember little of the figure beyond the simple shirt and vaguely masculine appearance. Dream Me was nonplussed by this and immediately turned towards my nightstand which held a few flashlights. My dream self grabbed a light, flicked it on, and then walked over to one of the two windows in my room.

It was summertime, so one of my windows had an AC unit installed into it, and it was this window I approached. I noticed on approach a stereotypical ghost girl, black hair, white gown or dress, somehow holding onto the side of the AC unit where the air, the cool air came out of. She was, she was lying prostrate over the AC unit, her head down and face obscured, putting herself perpendicular to the floor. Is this like, are we, is this person like a professor or something? Just the way they write is like, I was going to say, how dare you all. I get the run on sentences. No offense, HK 47. I

know you're from Finland, but I'm just saying that was a full run on sentence with no periods, no nothing. And then you're over, Alex is like, in the idiotized world of ghosts and goblins and ghouls, the nature of a ghast, potentially some sort of paranatural creature levitating above me as it looked down perpendicular to- I'm like, what the hell? In all fairness, there are plenty of typos and mistakes in this one as well. I just- Yeah, you're just better at covering up, but frankly, I don't like it!

She was lying prostrate over the AC unit, her head down and face obscured, putting herself perpendicular to the floor. Gravity had no effect on her. lying prostrate over the AC unit, her head down and face obscured, putting herself perpendicular to the floor. Gravity had no effect on her, her hair and dress were flat against her head instead of falling downwards to the floor. When Dream Me was maybe five feet away, they proceeded to shine their light right on this ghost girl. She reacted by craning head back, her long black hair still obscuring her face, and seeming to look past me towards the door behind me while letting out an unearthly screech. This! You almost heard it, but then I woke up. It's weird. At no point during this dream did I feel anything.

It was like I was apathetically observing something play out. To that point, I remember my first thought on waking being along the lines of wow, that was a weird dream. I feel like I should be afraid of it, but I'm not. That's you. That was you in New York on the street. A few moments of me staring at the ceiling pass before another thought crept into my head. A realization. So why do I feel terrified? Boom. End of episode. See you next week, everybody. I'd be so upset with both of you. Episode 2, The Encounter. I felt a strange terror. Somehow I knew it not to be linked to the dream, some instinct in me suggested this, but it was a terror unlike anything

I had ever felt before or since. I've never felt the fear of being terrified for my life before and I pray none of us ever do, but I liken this fear to that. That fear of death strikes me as the closest approximation. I scanned my dark room trying to find the source of this fear, and it didn't take me long to find it. In the corner of my room, directly across from where I was sleeping, was a mass of darkness. The M and the D are capitalized. It stood out amongst everything else for two reasons. For one, it was impossibly dark, blacker than a black hole, far too dark for the gloom of my room.

And for two, I could not take my eyes off of it. For two is incredible. I can't believe it. For two? Yeah. It's hard to put, it's like the dad from Mary Poppins wrote this, it's hard to put into words some of what happens next, but I'll do what I can. On sighting this dark mass, capital D, capital M, I experienced what I can only call an intense cognitive dissonance.

I felt like my thoughts split into two. One, a primal instinctual side that took the reins and paralyzed me in bed. For the next few minutes, I would be unable to move anything except my eyes. But the other side of me, the other side, was calm, analytical, and inquisitive. I suppose this strange dissonance may have spared this part of me the brunt of the intense fear I experienced that evening. I nevertheless still felt it at the edge of my cognition, keeping the primal side from

letting me move. Unable to do anything else, this analytical side of me took to examining in all ways it could this strange thing in the corner of my room. I could still move my eyes, at least. Hard to say how long exactly I lay there in my bed analyzing this dark mass, capital D, capital M, but it must have been at least a few minutes. Much like me, when I'm not scared so hard my mind fractured this analytical side took to asking itself questions and then answering them in nearly the same breath, so to speak. The thoughts all took place in my head parentheses.

Let me try to compile the various thoughts this part of me had the questions and conclusions that I came to. What am I looking at exactly? Bangars to be an amorphous blob of darkness, maybe about three feet in diameter at its widest point. It seems to kind of meld into the surrounding darkness, lacking definite edges with a core that's way too dark for everything around it. Surely it's a trick of the light? No, there's dim moonlight coming through the window just above the mass. However, the mass was still darker than the space under the other window where the AC was and no light touched Further the wall behind the mass was white making stand out as anomalous more

Is there something in the corner that could be tricking my sight? There are some old VCRs staked in the corner, but little else this mass is too large to be there. Are we playing? Scary game squad right now. Are we just walking around a room pressing X surprise? This is great, Perhaps I'm still dreaming. No. I feel the cool breeze of the AC unit and the weight of my bedding. I've had many dreams, but such vivid sensations from a dream are unheard of. At least for me. After having these thoughts and coming to no firm conclusion, I manage to steal myself, break the paralysis, and carefully move my hand to one of the flashlights on the nightstand. Want to know what I saw when I turned the flashlight on? I saw the corner

of my room, but I still felt the fear just as intense as ever. I turned the flashlight off and mass returns, as though it never left. Light on, light off. It occurred to me that the only thing light does is render this terrifying, eldritch mass of darkness invisible. So I kept the flashlight off and just lay there in my bed, staring at this strange, terror-inducing thing in the corner of my room. I wish I had a more interesting end to this story, but at some point I must have fallen asleep. The next thing I know, it's morning.

I've never encountered that mass again, and it would be many years still before I fully moved out of that place. I tried to look into what this could be, but the closest approximation I could find are shadow people. But their typical descriptions don't line up with my encounter, at least from what I read. Odd as it may sound, I'm kind of frustrated by it all. The mass of darkness did nothing the entire encounter.

Didn't even move. Just vibed in the corner. So why was I so scared? I'd like to believe that despite appearances, if the thing wasn't taking any threatening actions I would have calmed. But the fear was as high as it could get the whole encounter. Did I just hallucinate the whole thing? It felt too real, but I guess if I did hallucinate, how would I know?

I have no history of hallucinations, drug use, or the like, prior or since. I guess I'm ultimately just left perplexed by it all. Maybe the eldritch horror was just trolling me the whole time. This post got a lot wordier than I wanted. I'm sorry about that. I get that way, trying to explain things. For those that managed to make it through all that, does anyone know what that might have been?

I'm genuinely curious on anyone's thoughts on the subject. Bangor, Maine, 1898, a lighthouse on the edge of a cliff. The Black Masters need a little bit of weed. You would have been good. The Black Masters needs a little editor, But this is a really interesting tale. This is a rousing tale. This was more of a writing exercise than like a... Absolutely. That's what I love about it. But that to me is just as authentic. Everybody can ask whether something's true or not, but I actually don't really care. And I actually care more about whether or not I had a good time,

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I appreciate your sponsorship. Bye. On to the next one then. My absurd and terrible waking dreams from Chibberton. How do you find folks? Been a long time listener and after finally getting caught up in hearing the dream episodes, I figured I should finally share these bizarre visions I've had with more than my close friends. Feel free to read on the podcast if you like, maybe I'll find some sort of meaning where

I couldn't. And I'll apologize for a lengthy post as this is just the more notable times over the course of years. Okay, so some important details first, but I have had a history of sleepwalking, though it's mostly been when I was younger with the rare case of sleepwalking here or there in my adult life. Another key detail with these waking dreams night terrors is that I always wake up in an intense fright and my only impulse is to get out or get away as fast as possible. Lastly, these all fade rather quickly upon waking up, so thankfully I'm not subjected to any of these for very long.

Alrighty, that out of the way, here we go. The first couple of times it started happening it felt fairly down to earth. I would wake up and I would see shadowy spiders in my web. I've talked about, dude, I have woken up and I've seen spiders on the ceilings and walls. Spiders is a weird, yeah, like dinner plate size spiders sometimes, like right in front of you. I was cognitively, like I was, I was awake and I knew it was like a hallucination. When I would walk up to them and like go to touch them, they would just like disappear or like, you know, become more back to like what I was supposed and I knew it was like a hallucination. When I would walk up to them and go to touch them,

they would just disappear or become back to what it was supposed to be. So I get that, that shit is weird. Sometimes I would wake up, shadowy spiders, and I would literally jump out of bed and it would fade. Sometimes I would check around to make sure it didn't crawl under my bed or anything like that. It can be hard to tell if it was real

in the middle of the night. I've got arachnophobia, so these feel self-explanatory. The first one that started to feel odd, I woke up in a panic and I could see clear as day was a single severed finger with a single bullet tied to it with a little string inching its way from the door to my bed and faded. Holy shit, like a finger from like thing

from Adam's family just like eek, eek, eek. Like a little inchworm, yeah. Dude, I would get up and stomp on that thing first and foremost Why what if what would you stomp a human finger has a bullet tied to it? That sounds like a message You would stop that fuck would you are you afraid it's gonna jump down your throat climb up your nose ball I've never seen a severed body part move before Second of all, there's a bullet to it. So there's a bullet on it. So it can't be good juju That's been bad vibes. Just don't let it near a trigger. It'll be that's dangerous. Yeah Another one woke up in a panic and standing in my bedroom doorway was a set of legs that ended at the torso

Wearing a set of armor with a spear leaning up against, think of your classic Roman centurion. All I knew was I had to get past it and sprint it out of my room, look back, and it was gone. What if it's just one ghost desperately trying to make contact, but it can't do more than like a body part or so at a time? First its finger. So he tied a bullet, he's trying to like tell

about his own murder. Yeah, the bullet, then it's like a weird night legs, it's weird. This armor one is like some kind of like scary game squad like stealth movement tutorial. For scary games, for people who don't know what scary game squad is, what are scary game squad, Alex and Jesse? Oh, thank you so much for asking.

Jesse has been doing a show on his channel for about 45 years, that's us. We used to be, we used to be young enough to drink on the show, but now we're just a couple doddering old fools blundering our way through some of the finest horror games the world has to offer. Patreon.com slash Jaluma. My man. She goes on to say this one I still remember the last seconds of the dream before waking I was talking to someone can no longer remember who roger closs said yeah, it's scary But not as scary as that guy in your closet. Oh, that's the way be fucking the worst thing to hear

That's pretty warwick Um my eyes shot open and sure enough I could see the figure of a man in a trench coat That was unnaturally tall hunching over in my closet Couldn't see any notable features as he had the collar up and a hat, very similar to the villain from I Know What You Did Last Summer. I then shouted, fuck! Loud enough to wake up every roommate in my apartment.

I apologized and went back to bed. That's not the hat man. Have you ever heard of the hat man? A lot of people see the hat man. My mom has seen the hat man. Yeah, the hat man is the guy. But she's also partially schizophrenic and on medication But I but there's enough of a there's enough of a

Everywhere. Yeah, he's he's been seen by so many people everyone knows hat man, dude I mean, I don't know if he's actually a man with a hat on but there's some kind of You know, like we all got the same computer You ever think about like what stuff we have in common? Like maybe we all got clippy and it's just the hat man You ever think hat man's stuff we have in common like maybe we all got clippy and it's just the hat man You ever think hat man's just like our brain computer people just have he comes he comes to us while we're sleeping He's like it looks like you're trying to build a go-kart Why he hasn't visited me? I wish he'd visit me You're too. You're too thirsty man. I want experience. I want the experience. I'm sorry

I'm too thirsty, man. I want experience. I want the experience, I'm sorry. This time I woke up and it was like, each of my walls were dim screens that displayed nothing but static. Then hundreds of Commander Shepard heads with cartoonishly bulging eyes began appearing saying, it's right behind you.

If you want, there's a clip, I wanna see the clip. Yeah, there's a video she gave, a YouTube link. Oh, it's a Gary's Mod. Wanted the exact visual. I'm going to go listen. I haven't seen this. So it's like this. I mean, I've seen this meme before. Oh, it's that bulging eyes like Gary's Mod Shepherd model.

Yep. Yep. It looks horrific. His eyes are like vibrating and shit. I all I can think about now is like I'm Commander Shepard. This is my favorite dream. The Citadel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all I can imagine. It's my favorite monster right behind you. And yet I like Mark is part of my podcast, my vampire podcast.

I should have we should have him on the show for something weird. He's like super into like the supernatural and weird shit. That guy's voice. Yeah, it is. Commander. Not his face. Yeah. for something weird. He's like super into like the supernatural and weird shit. That guy's voice. Yeah, it is. Not his face. Yeah. Yeah. Just to be clear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had apparently slept on my arm long enough to put it to sleep

because in my sprint toward my door, my numb arm had wrapped around my chest, convincing me in my barely awake and frightened state that whatever shepherd was trying to warn me about had grabbed me. I started to pull on my numb arm attempting to free myself from the creature and this had caused me to stumble into and knock over a shelf. After I came to my senses, I noticed I had a few scratches from the shelf and began cleaning up the aftermath. You live a cartoon character's life.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Like, it's a ghost! Getting grads like very fucking shaggy. Scoot. Bliya ya ya ya ya ya. Uh, and a more calm one to end with. I woke up and could hear a bit of radio static, and then my friend's voice cut through the noise.

Hey, the ghost is going to start hunting soon. You should probably get out of here. Oh shit. So I calmly got up up walked all the way down the stairs Through several rooms and made it all the way out to the garage my half-awake state I then stood there for a solid 30 seconds before I decided Yeah, it's probably good enough and only properly woke up halfway back to my room My friends and I had been playing a lot of phasmophobia at the time, so it's easy to assume I got this one. It's a very gamerly set of visuals.

Yeah. Yeah. There's a handful more, but these are the ones that have stuck with me for the most over the years. If you got any questions, I can try to answer them, but there's not really too much detail to any of these really outside of what I've written here. And just a little note on the end here, I love the work each of y'all do. Your podcast has made many a hard day,

a little easier to bear. Keep up the great work. Thank you. Thanks, thank you very much. Thank you. I feel sorry for you, but also it's fucking hilarious. I'm sorry. It's just the cartoonish half-awake sleepwalking responses

are just straight out of like, um. Each one of these is so clearly motivated by something that you already know What it is? Like I mean the finger in the bullet. I don't know like I don't know what to say about that I think some stuff is just free association brain gumbo But like some stuff you're like this guy looked exactly like the guy from this movie or this one is Commander Shepard This one is Ph phasmophobia. Very informed of like what you're doing at the time.

Right. Jesse, this one's written by a little bit nicer than the last one. No run on sentences here. So you know what you can have? I'm seeing paragraphs. This is great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Easy read. God, yeah. My UFO sighting by Elvin underscore noble.

First, let me preface that I'm more on the scully side than even Jesse. I frankly don't believe any of the things that they talk about, but the stories are interesting as works of fiction. I don't need to believe them to think they're interesting. I'm science oriented and work on the basis of whether there's evidence or not rather than belief. I'm on episode 214. Oh God, what episode are we now?

271 baby. You still got like a year's worth catching up. Yeah, you're getting there. Yeah. It's unfortunate that, uh, Hey, that green stone story, man. Bless bless luck. Hey, you're telling them to get ready because of how good it was. I'm going to give Alex his do words.

Do we had a post on Our subreddit a while back that said the green stone was the first thing I listened to that pulled me in and I loved it So there are it's consistently it's very People who probably should be in an asylum out there listening to our show we appreciate genuine crazies It's consistently one of the highest listen to series. It's a great Yeah, genuine crazies. It's consistently one of the highest listened to series. It's a great series. It even has a UFO in the middle.

There's just a lot of great people in the world, Alex. Alex has access to our analytics even more now, and I don't even know if he's telling the truth about it, if it's one of the more listened to ones. It's in the top percentile of RADiTest. I have a weird feeling you're lying, actually. I have this weird feeling that's not true. Anyway, I'm on episode 214! Was going to wait till I caught up to post, but I probably still have several weeks until then.

I'm going to share my mom's weird sightings of ghosts, or I was going to share my mom's weird sightings of ghosts and or other entities. She has dozens and some are really creepy. But I think I'll leave that for another time if someone asks. I'm asking. For now, I'll share something short and for another time if someone asks. I'm asking For now, I'll share something short and simple my UFO sighting. Was it a trailer? Yeah, I think it is a trailer. Yes of things to come and I mean it in the literal sense It's simply an unexplained thing in the sky I don't have weird theories about it just facts and the facts are that around 2002 to 2005

I don't know which year exactly. These are the most precise facts. Yeah, the facts are that around 2002 to 2005, I don't know which year exactly. These aren't the most precise facts. The facts are somewhere around this time. I don't know which year exactly, but long before drones were a thing, there was a UFO sighting in Lanolhue Lake, I hope that's it, in South Central Chile. We do not get a lot of sightings here, I think. How dare you? He says we do get a lot of sightings here, I think. It says they do. How dare you? It says we do get a lot of sightings. We do get a lot of sightings here. Don't you dare. Chile, Chile honestly is a big hotspot. Yeah. Not only I and all my extended family saw it, but there were flashes of light of people taking pictures all over the lake shore. What I saw was a rushed-rush-rust-brrrr-orange light that floated up and down for a while, almost like it was bobbing in sea waves. It wasn't very close,

I couldn't tell you how far it was, but it was southwards probably beyond the opposite shore. It wasn't a plane or a helicopter, and it was silent. It just floated there for a few minutes, at least five, before suddenly vanishing like it had never been there. It was brighter than a star, but not much more. It was maybe a bit shinier than Venus, but very orange. It didn't have green or red lights like a flying vehicle. I can't think of any normal explanation for it, hence

why it's a UFO. A drone could have easily explained it, but they didn't exist yet. No celestial object would bob up and down. They either stay relatively stationary or they move in a rapid, homogenous speed. We also saw a giant asteroid of some kind explode in the atmosphere. What? It's fine to talk about this on the pod, also unrelated. If you guys need help with pronunciation on Spanish, French, Italian, or German, the answer is yes. I refuse any, I will forever pronounce things the way I want to.

Compilations. I don't understand the obsession. Like, I'm going to try my best, right? Like I'm not going to like, I'm not going to like fucking like I'm not gonna like I'm not gonna like I'm here for it I would love to be able to speak better Speak good Speak good. I'm trying my best. You know what I mean? I give it a try to read the letters You offended Alex. No

Alex no, I want says I'm sure you've gotten a lot of comments of butt-clenching foreigners angry over how you say things. Alex? Listen, I get posted butt-clenching English speakers about how I say things. Somebody told me I had to... Yeah, somebody... I'm always getting criticized for everything. Even just for saying like a lot. I'm from Southern California. I'm sorry.

That's just how we talk. Like how people say y'all in fucking Texas. It's the same shit. It's true. Okay. I say y'all now though, and I'm not even... I sometimes say y'all, and I live fucking a thousand miles away. Listen, Texas has a lot of great things, but that's a good word.

Y'all yins. We like yins too. Yins is better. The Pittsburgh yins is better. Here's what I want to say about Chile. I don't ever think I've ever like made the conscious thought connecting the fact that Chile is like a country that gets a lot of UFO sightings and the fact that it's like a long, slim finger that goes all the way down the entire west coast of South America. So it's all, so it's all coastal, like the whole fucking thing for, so of course it has sightings. Oh, is your thought here that it's like

the water stuff? Like underwater, that vibe? Like it's literally where they say it is basically, it's like a little bit west of there, right? Yep. Yeah There's a lot of it's I mean it makes sense But what's fascinating about this sighting and maybe you don't know this maybe you do now because you've been listening to all these episodes but the One of the more common sightings is like a bright orange glowing ball that hangs around Bob sometimes follows people and then fucking just shoots off That's it. There's really not much other than that other than that usually But it just it kind of falls in line with some of the more common UFO sightings what it is who fucking knows

Like I'm trying to think were there really no drones back in like oh 205 I mean, I guess it's true cuz I was graduating there had to be drones. There had to be drones I know like spy planes existed right like yeah, they did exist Maybe they just probably didn't have the profile that we think of today. Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to look up modern drones, but the first drone ever used was 1935. Yeah, like a radio control. Some people are saying 1917. So like, yeah, but at that point, 2002, 2005, we were actively using what like the same

technology that we think of today as drones, just not like little helicopter bodies. If you know what I'm saying, it still is a very weird sighting. I'd be very good at do Gyarados in HD over the Honolulu Harbor, but we could do some confused a bunch of people thinking it's a UFO taking off. Yeah. So I love that. That's like a great. That's like such a typical UFO story, but it's a good one. Yeah. In the 90s, we had predator drones. Yeah. Yeah.

That would fire a hellfire missiles. So. Yeah, we definitely had them. Yeah. I'm coming for South America and Europe with the UFOs. I got some I got some ideas in the hopper. I will do another episode on UFOs one day about specifically UFO counters and like South American stuff and how different are the similarities there, but how violently different they are compared to us for some reason. Yeah. Also good question. How often a modern drone is just chilling out over Chile. You know what I mean?

Language languages are just such a, uh, very, very effective barrier to information still. And I found that when I did the, that's like when we discovered that story from Spain and the only reason why it wasn't, why the report because it was in Spanish. Yeah. Yeah. It's like one of the reasons when people say, Oh, why are there so many UFOs in only America and nowhere else? It's like, no, they're everywhere. But I bet you there's a huge amount of Chinese ones too. Sure.

Yeah, America isn't even the number one hotspots Europe. America's like number two, I think, but yeah, they're everywhere. All right, let's move on to the next one. Alex, this one's for you. This one is Dead Moon Rising by Naughty Prince Moth. I like it. I like everything about it.

The name of the post, the author. I wanna first start this off by saying that some of the events that I'll recall happened so long ago or were so traumatizing that bits and pieces of information are missing or my memory is fuzzy on all the details. What I do know is what I'm about to tell you still sends shivers down my spine whenever I think or speak about it. I've grown up in Texas most of my life, and my family was no stranger to the weird, macabre or paranormal side of things, my mom most of all. We used to watch horror movies, paranormal investigations,

and just about every serial killer documentary out there, so I was no stranger to the strange, but I'm often skeptical when it comes to spirits and even things like God, parentheses S, gods, God and gods. This first recollection- There should be a comic book series run that's just called God's, parentheses, S, and inside. There's the New Gods by Ram V. Go check that out.

The first recollection is from my mom, which happened when I was about nine or ten at the time. She has claimed to have heard what sounded like the pitter patter ofatter of paws on linoleum even when all our animals were asleep, and then to top it all off, she heard the animal's water dish being drank from with none of the animals around it. Now I'm a bit like Jesse, I try to find an explanation for what happens. My explanation for my mom's experience was more than likely one of the dogs had gotten up and then laid down. As for the water dish, it was a gravity water dish which often time have air bubbles in them

and will make noise. The second recollection comes- Can I pause for a second? Here's pause for a second. Yeah. Have we ever had any story where they say, I'm more of a Matheser and Alex or is it always I'm more of a Jesse?

Cause I always feel like- It's never, I mean, it's very clear which one they actually are when they say it, but almost everyone says they're a Jesse and then they're like, anyway, I saw a level five spectral anomaly. I just wanted to bring it up. That's all you know. But this this person is actually like suggesting mundane

explanations, which I respect as a far so good as a as a Jesse cargo cult Jesse vibe. Okay, the second recollection comes from my brother, which happened when I was about 13 or 14. He was getting a shower when all of a sudden he screamed that he felt someone touch him. I brushed this off as it might have been the shower curtain, a towel, or maybe just a gust of wind from the air vents. Whatever it was had my mom worried, however, and I learned later that she had bought a Ouija board.

Now, whether she messed with it or not, I don't know. I would also like to say that all of the events happened in different houses slash apartments. This recollection is from me however. It happened three years ago my partner and I and I's first apartment. We had just been through the most traumatic thing a parent goes through and lost our newborn daughter whose name translates to moon due to sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS for short. As if that didn't sting enough, my partner was soon after called to be deployed to El Paso to be part of the border mission.

I was alone, dealing with postpartum depression and our daughter's death, and I ended up bed rotting on the couch. That's where I spend most of my, if not all my time. I didn't even watch TV, just stared off into space, unsure of what to do anymore. One day while I was, um, while I was though, something snapped me out of it. Unsure of what it was, I took a look at my surroundings. The animal we had at the time were either curled up with me on the couch or in their bed so I figured it was a bug or the shadow of a car passing by until I saw it a

Porcelain doll that I'd had since I was 11 moved its hand up and down slowly and then stopped. No, thank you No, thank you. Fuck that. That's what I get business You see that tick-tock of whenever like something spooky happens and then the guy cuts in he just picks up a suitcase and he just leaves No, that's what I'll be doing. I'm like why stick around in the horror movie that Eddie Murphy bit where he's like Oh, this is a nice house. So this is really good. We're gonna get out. Okay, it's a shame We can't have it. We're gonna see you guys later. Yes Exactly. Okay a porcelain doll moved in and slot and stopped I brushed it off as being sleep deprived on top of everything else, but it still startled me

So I got off the couch and went to the bedroom, calling the dogs to sleep with me. I drifted off to sleep, but something was off. I was in a room in the dream, but there was no clear walls, floor, or ceiling. Then all of a sudden this little girl runs up to me. She had dark brown hair, was barefoot, and was wearing a white gown. The gown looked a little familiar, but I couldn't place my finger on it at the time. I later realized it was the same gown the porcelain doll was wearing. She ran up to me and hugged me, calling me dad. I hugged her unsurely. She then looked up at me and

said, Dad, it's okay. I'm okay. I woke up in a cold sweat, tears rushing down my face, and called my partner, telling them what I had experienced. My partner then asked me if I could see the moon from the room. I was taken aback but said no and asked them why to which they responded, the moon's in the shape of a smile. To this day, I don't fully believe that what happened was a paranormal experience, merely just a coincidence on top of my brain trying to process everything and perhaps soothe me as well.

But one thing I know for certain is that I'll never forget how it made me feel. And like, I love that that's your take at the end too, first of all, like, because your brain tells you what's real. What is real? We've talked about that for so long. And as long as the feelings and the emotions that are real that come from the experience,

then that's all that fucking matters in the end. Yeah, and what a thing to fucking live through, man. It's crazy. All right, here we go. Listener's story, my father's UFO sighting in Italy, 1976. From Alien Tripod. Hey Chiluminati Bros. Day one listener here.

Mathis's recent UFO sighting prompted me to post here the sighting my dad had back in the 70s. Back in 1976, my father was working at the airport in Venice, Italy. Accounts of UFOs being seen by pilots had been reported sporadically, but during 1975 the numbers skyrocketed. According to him, no secret report of any kind was expected to be compiled after an encounter nor there was any investigation going on. If anything of such sort existed, it's possible he wasn't informed of its existence.

Knowing some of the pilots from the airline ATI, he took the courage to ask for descriptions of the objects they had seen. Most of them were described as cigar or sphere shaped, with one or two accounts of them being saucers. Common maneuvers included flying parallel to the plane, doing 90 degree turns with no loss of speed and vertical ascending, all of which violated several laws of physics. This behavior seems eerily similar to what the Tic Tac was described to do by the crew of the USS Nimitz in 2004

This situation continued for a year until it reached its highest point on a hot summer day that day a flight from Trist or Trist day. I don't know how you would say it Trist day Trist finally landed with no issues apart from what what Trist? I'm Trieste Trieste Trieste Yeah, the plane had finally landed with no issues, apart from one thing that clearly made the pilot so nervous. The first thing he did after getting off the plane was to call the control tower. Apparently, an object he described as a, quote, silver-colored sphere, approximately 4 meters in diameter, had followed his plane from Rhone to Trist, appearing again after it had taken

off from there, following it all the way to Venice. The sphere would fly next to the plane at around 100 meters of distance, while occasionally passing over it and placing itself on the other side. That's such a common thing that is still reported even today by today's commercial pilots. The reason he called was to inform everyone

that it was apparently hovering over the airport. The news caught up to my father, who managed to sneak outside with some colleagues, bringing a pair of binoculars with him from his workplace. It was at that moment that he could see it. A silver-colored sphere with a completely smooth and highly reflective surface hovering motionless at around 200 meters of altitude. Having to go back to his work, he unfortunately didn't manage to look at it any longer, but

according to what his colleagues at the tower said, after around five minutes it just suddenly ascended vertically in the blink of an eye. No gradual acceleration, just instant bullet-like vertical ascension with no sound. The sphere didn't appear on any of the radars, just like all the other times UFOs had been reported by pilots. He eventually changed careers five years later, but by that time the sighting stopped being reported long before. I hope this story will be of use when running low on UFO stuff to read. No, just good stuff. My heart goes out to Mathis for trying to wrap his head around the recent UAP mess. Yeah, it's a mess.

It's damn right. I kind of stopped following the topic since the promise of 40 whistleblowers were never back. Yeah, damn right. I'm with you there too. That along with the gutting of the UAPDA has been such huge disappointment so my vibe from now on is to just wait and see if anything will finally come out

of this just around the corner disclosure. Greetings from Japan. Also, hi from, hi in Japan. That's crazy. That's so similar to, I've started doing a little bit of research for the stories I'm gonna do next year on the show. And one of the UFO stories that I've been looking at doing

is really similar to this. I don't want to say which one it is because I don't want to like spoil it, but like this idea of it coming down, everybody seeing it, and then it going straight up and then kind of it not becoming a big deal is like a, like a, what do you call it? Like an archetype, if you know what I mean. It's like an archetype of siting in the 2000, like the like, like 1970 to like 2010. I mean, one of the big things, I mean, again, this is the 70s in Italy. So I don't, I can't speak to that what it was politically like that when it comes to like reporting the stuff. But they said in the story, like they just didn't report that stuff. And it was, uh, same is true until the past five years. I can't remember how many years ago it was here

in the U S where they finally like opened up the ability for the Air Force to actually report these things and not be fucking ridiculed for it, which is why the number of sightings have gone up by the hundreds every year because it's even back then, they were just like, don't report it, don't wanna fucking talk about it. Don't, it doesn't fucking matter, leave it alone.

Crazy. And now like that's changed. And so the, you know, the slow moving kind of news of it all finally hits but I'm with him too we're like I'm so sick of this fucking just around the corner bullshit of like all this other shit that just makes it difficult to follow because it adds so much noise when people should be doing what and you know people hate him but what Steven Greenstreet does with his black vault for your quest for your quest for your quest follow the paperwork because, like he did,

you're gonna find some paperwork that contradicts each other that then points to you the direction you need to go. So like, yeah, I'm with you. Good reason to ask a question. Damn right, exactly. But this silver board, it reminds me of the Mosul Orb video we saw, like last year or whatever it was, these silver orbs.

Yeah, the one that's like caught on the overhead camera. Yeah, the drone, I think it's a Predator drone actually, now that you mentioned Predator drone, the Predator drone was following it or something along those lines. Yeah, it's weird. So, love that story. Something from the 70s which is cool

and not in America, which is neat. And that's where we're gonna end the Halloween special, everybody. I hope you all enjoy your Halloween, whether you're partying or going out trick or treating with your family, even if you're too old for it. Be safe, have a good time. And we'll be back next

Week here with a brand new episode we're gonna go to patreon.com slash julian on the pod to go do our mini soda right now Thank you all so much. We appreciate you. We love you. Bye anyway Me and my wife were sitting outside indulging on our porch one night enjoying ourselves I needed to go to the bathroom so I stepped back inside and after a few moments I hear my wife go holy shit get out here bathroom so I stepped back inside and after a few moments I hear my wife go, Holy shit, get out of here! So I quickly dash back outside. She's looking up at the sky in awe.

I look up too, and there's a perfect line of dozen lights traveling across the sky. So I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man

I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man Thanks for watching!